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Choreographic Works

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Music as Puppetry

Music, Dance and Mask Collaborative work with Violinist/Composer James Watson

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Notable Presentations: 

  • Chinook Blast, Calgary 

  • Common Ground Festival, Calgary

  • Keith’s Hootenanny, Calgary

  • Calgary Folk Music Festival

  • Arts Commons’ Amplify Cabaret, Calgary

  • Canadian Academy of Mask and Puppetry, Calgary

  • Dancers’ Studio West Quick+Dirty Festival

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Right Hand Woman

Solo Dance and Puppetry

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In this “serious contemporary dance solo” gone wrong, performer Jocelyn doesn’t realize that the audience can hear her every (doubtful and self-deprecating) thought. Desperate to fit in with other contemporary dance artists, Jocelyn performs her well-rehearsed “arm-noodling” and “invisible hula-hoop” sequences - that is, until her bloody tampon falls out unexpectedly onstage. To make matters worse, her giant tampon, Tony Tamponi, is a sentient, misogynistic a**hole. Drama ensues.

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Notable Presentations: 

  • Springboard Performance's Fluid Fest Cabaret

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The Secancy Project

Music and Dance Film Collaboration with Saxophonist/Composer Daniel Pelton​

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Notable Presentations: 

  • Dance Made In Canada/fait au Canada Online, Toronto

  • WildDogs International Festival, Honourary Mention and Screening, Calgary

  • Skylines Dance Festival, Winnipeg

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Unmasked, Friendship and Aunt Gertrudis 

Short works commissioned for Alberta Dance Theatre for Young People 

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Created in collaboration with ADT's Youth Artists

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Fantasma

Dance and Music Performance on Film

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Created and performed by Jocelyn Mah, featuring soprano Brittany Rae and pianist Kerry Agnew, Fantasma is set to an excerpt of Gaetano Donizetti’s opera Lucia di Lammermoor, and portrays a woman’s raw state of grief. 

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Notable Presentations: 

  • Springboard Performance's Fluid Fest

  • COSE Online, Toronto

  • Dancing in the Park Online, Edmonton

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Five Taken

Dance Ensemble Work 

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An Ode to Dave Brubeck and the Music-Movement Connection

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Notable Presentations: 

  • Experiment 6, London UK

  • Dance Ontario’s Dance Weekend, Toronto

  • The New Blue Festival, Toronto

  • Short Dances, Toronto

  • Springboard’s ContainR, Calgary

  • Your Dance Fest, Toronto

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Tenderly

Stop-Motion Animation Puppetry Film featuring the tender relationship between a girl and her dog

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Notable Presentations: 

  • Dancers’ Studio West’s Quick+Dirty Festival, Calgary

  • Dancing in the Park, Edmonton

  • Calgary Animated Objects Society 

  • Chinook Blast Festival, Calgary

  • Marda Thaw, Calgary

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Gennaio

Ensemble Dance Work 

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Lively and Musical

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Notable Presentations: 

  • Kaeja d’Dance’s Wind Down Dance, Toronto

  • EDge on Tour, London UK and Famalicão Portugal

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August, Augusta

Dance Work featuring Live Music

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Recipient of the Inaugural Winchester Prize for Choreographic Distinction (The School of Toronto Dance Theatre/Dance Arts Institute)

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Notable Presentations: 

  • SummerWorks Performance Festival, Toronto

Photography Credits: Sean Dennie, Darin Gregson, Gbohunmi, Alberta Dance Theatre, Rich-Belle Banasen, Ken Dobb, Jocelyn Mah, Kaeja d'Dance, Kristen Stambolic
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